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Educational Research MSc

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Full time | St Luke's Campus | 1 year | 23-SEP-24

Study mode

Full time

Duration

1 year

Start date

23-SEP-24

Key information
DATA SOURCE : IDP Connect

Qualification type

MSc - Master of Science

Subject areas

Education Research Education Studies

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

Overview

  • You’ll acquire general social science research skills that can be used in different contexts and applied to a variety of problems
  • Opportunities to specialise in a particular field of education within a research preparation framework
  • Relevant to students who are interested in doctoral research or wish to develop their educational research knowledge and skills or study a specific area of education
  • You will join an active and vibrant research community studying with some of the leading scholars in their disciplines and be taught by senior staff who are all engaged in educational research
  • You will be equipped with a range of academic, personal and professional skills that will prepare you confidently for employment, future study or training for professional practice

Careers

Our postgraduate programmes are designed to give you career progression in your specialist educational area of choice and completion of this programme can lead to a variety of research roles within educational and social science fields.

On completion, you will be equipped with a range of academic, personal and professional skills that will prepare you confidently for employment, future study or training for professional practice. Career Zone provides support including skills training, internships, jobs vacancies, employment fairs advice and help for you to progress in your chosen path. For more information on careers support at Exeter, see our postgraduate employment and professional development webpages.

Modules

Through this module you will develop a critical understanding of interpretive research, and competence in the planning and execution of such research. In the formative work you will be required to work collaboratively to discuss matters of interpretive research design and analysis; to conduct your own piece of small-scale interpretive research and to keep an academic field journal. The one summative assignment involves you assessing the lessons that you have learnt from conducting a piece of small-scale interpretive research.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£10,800

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£22,700

Entry requirements

You will be expected to have obtained a first degree equivalent to at least a UK 2:1 Honours in a relevant area such as social sciences, humanities or management, and to have demonstrable interest in educational research.